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Pretty easy actually. Sampires aren't going to do 150 damage crits with Enemy of One to another player, so their life leech won't really do much.

Most sampires don't have healing like mine does, so for those I would just use a nox fencer. Vamp form doesn't cure level 5 poison and they can't chug cure pots, so they stay poisoned.

If you're playing a mage they aren't a real threat because again they aren't doing huge uber damage so they won't be leeching that much mana back. A quick mana vamp and their defensive bushido spells are pretty much out of the picture and you don't have to worry about them spamming conc blow on you.

PvPing with a sampire...that's just silly. As has been stated, you're not leeching enough HP's to stay alive, especially if fighting a mage or an archer...toe to toe with a dexer you've got better odds, but still not best to go out looking for a fight on a sampire unless you've got a different template set up as opposed to a PvM Sampire.

I'm certainly not a great PvPer, but I have *yet* to win a fight on my sampire when attacked in Fel (usually at champ spawns, cleaning up with whirlwind). My ABC archer, on the other hand, is running about 50/50, even though that's a mostly pvm template as well. If there's a way to play sampires effectively in pvp, I certainly haven't found it yet.

I suppose at that point the best thing to do aside from run is to have some weapon change macros preset. that way you could swap to proper gear. Your still tied to your template but how you fight could make the difference between living and a deathrobe. Just a thought.

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